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Front Row: The Big Wedding; James Salter; Enough Tudors Already; David Walliams

The Big Wedding; James Salter; Enough Tudors Already; David Walliams

20/05/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Big Wedding; James Salter; Enough Tudors Already; David Walliams

The Big Wedding, James Salter, David Walliams on Pinter, and too many Tudors - who's next?

Robert De Niro stars in The Big Wedding; author James Salter; David Walliams on Harold Pinter for Cultural Exchange; after the ubiquitous Tudors, who else deserves TV's spotlight?

With Mark Lawson

Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton star in The Big Wedding, playing an ex-married couple who must pretend to be together for their adopted son's wedding. The starry cast also includes Susan Sarandon, Amanda Seyfried and Robin Williams as the priest. Larushka Ivan-Zadeh delivers her verdict.

A new series on the Tudors begins on BBC TV this week - so why is this historical period so popular with TV executives, and which other parts of British history deserve the TV treatment? Historians Henrietta Leyser and Don Spaeth pitch their alternatives.

Veteran American writer James Salter has just published his first novel in 34 years. All That Is comes garlanded with praise from writers on both sides of the Atlantic, and draws together many of the themes of Salter's lifetime's work: war, love, sex and marriage. Often considered the great overlooked writer, 87 year old Salter discusses the novel's long gestation, and his trademark economy of prose.

In Cultural Exchange, in which leading creative minds reflect on a favourite cultural experience, David Walliams discusses the work of Harold Pinter, and recalls the guidance Pinter gave him when he performed in No Man's Land. 


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